Word: chaining
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...news organization has embraced this ethic more enthusiastically than Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today. Credited with one of the industry's best records for hiring and promoting minorities and women at its 88 daily newspapers, Gannett has mounted a campaign to combat what Charles Overby, the vice president for news, calls "the insidious stereotyping that tends to take place by white male managers...
...their minority report, the dissenters piece together this chain of events: explosions aboard the aircraft ignited an in-flight fire that may have caused system failures and a crash. As evidence, they point to a pathologist's report that found combustion residues in the lungs of more than 70 of the victims, indicating there was a fire in the plane before the final impact killed all the passengers. They cite eyewitness accounts from two truck drivers who saw a yellow glow under the belly of the crippled DC-8 as it plunged to earth. The four also charge that...
Increasing numbers of teenagers are turning to private SAT cram courses that can cost as much as $800 and claim to boost scores 100 points or more. "Over the past five years, our revenues have doubled," boasts Stanley H. Kaplan, chairman of a nationwide test-coaching chain that bears his name. Summer courses at Ivy League universities or prestigious academies like Phillips Exeter are also popular. These platinum-plated extras, plus fees for applications and trips to visit campuses, can add up to a staggering sum -- and all before the tuition bills start to arrive...
Lawyers for the board gave Johnson and his small coterie of advisers 15 minutes to sweeten the latest offer. At about 1:15 p.m. on Nov. 30, Johnson, chain smoking, submitted a bid of $112 a share and then settled into a tiny % office to await the verdict. The directors still favored Kravis. "KKR was going to have to sell fewer businesses," a source close to the board said, "and there was more protection for RJR employees under the KKR offer." Moreover, the informant added, while the Johnson group said it would reduce its initial stake in RJR after...
Diebenkorn sees drawing as a chain of events in which none of the links are hidden and every image carries the record of its own making, false starts and fresh turns included. It isn't so much a matter of spontaneity as of truth to the record. Painting covers the traces, drawing exposes them. So it is, especially, with the Ocean Parks, whose preliminary drawings in gouache and collage go right to the edge of being paintings in their own right; it is just that in a work like Untitled (Ocean Park), 1984, you see more of the process...